In Microsoft Defender for Cloud, the metric that represents the overall security health of your Azure subscription is secure score. Microsoft's documentation explains: ''Secure score provides an aggregated view of your security posture across your subscriptions and resources. It's based on security recommendations; addressing those recommendations improves your score.'' Defender for Cloud calculates secure score by assessing controls and recommendations mapped to standards, then weighting them by risk and importance: ''Each recommendation contributes to the secure score. Completing remediation steps increases the score and reduces risk.'' This single percentage view lets security teams quickly gauge how well current configurations and protections align with Microsoft's security best practices and regulatory mappings. Other elements surfaced in Defender for Cloud---like ''resource health,'' ''status of recommendations,'' or ''completed controls''---are components and statuses that feed into or relate to the scoring model, but the overall subscription security health indicator presented and tracked over time is secure score.